Frequent flyers are frequent grousers

The Democrats were happy to bash Republicans last week before pushing through a bill that ended air traffic controller furloughs under the sequester. (I wrote about the issue in this column.)

Last week House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a numberof Democrats joined the GOP on the issue, while grousing that the GOP did not feel compelled to fix the sequester cuts for Head Start or Meals on Wheels.

It’s no surprise that there was bipartisan support for the FAA fix. People who fly vote, and they’re very vocal when they complain. Ditto unions for pilots and flight attendants.

The question is: Why aren’t Democrats pushing for their own legislation to make smarter cuts that would spare Head Start and other pet programs from the knife?